Doctor to face hearing for "Female Infanticide"

Dr Palaniappan Rajmohan is to face a public hearing as he admitted that an abortion he was offering was identical to “female infanticide”. The hearing could result in him being removed from the medical register.

Dr Rajmohan was exposed of offering to arrange an abortion at the Calthorpe clinic in Edgbaston, Birmingham, for a woman who wanted to go through with the termination of her pregnancy as the baby was a girl.

However, the General Medical Council (GMC) have cancelled further investigation against Dr Prabha Sivaraman, who was recorded telling a woman, “I don't ask questions. If you want a termination, you want a termination.”

The regulatory body begun inquiries into both doctors after an investigation into sex selection abortion was carried out by the Telegraph.

There were undercover reporters who had accompanied pregnant women to nine clinics in different parts of the UK. It was in these two cases that they found the termination of the pregnancies were based on the sex of the unborn child.

Dr Rajmohan and Dr Sivaraman were banned from authorising or carrying out abortions for the past three years while the GMC reviewed their cases. The ban can only be lifted by the GMC's Interim Orders panel, which was issued to them in 2012, even though Sivaraman's case has been forgone.